beatles magical mystery tour movie not successful

and then, calling it a magical mystery tour, which - like a firm advertises a magical mystery tour, and you go on it, and it really is magic - then anything might happen, and it WOULDN'T have a thread if it was magic.' We thought that doing a mystery tour, you know - it's all happening on a bus to this group of people - would be enough of a thread. But when you go to make a film, I don't know, you seem to have to have a thread to pull it all together. It's like, you know, we make a record album and all the songs don't necessarily have to fit in with each other, you know. You gotta do everything with a point or an aim, but we tried this one without anything - with no point and no aim. I mean, some point to get across at all when you did this?' Q: 'Did you have a point in mind when you. We'll just do a selection of, you know - We'd put together alot of things that we like the look of, and see what happens. So we thought, 'We'll do something which isn't like that,' which isn't like a real film inasmuch as it's got a story and a beginning and. and we've been asking people to write stories and write plots. See, we've been waiting for a couple of years now to make another feature film. Paul: 'We thought we could just do a thing. I think alot of people were looking for a plot, and there wasn't one.' (laughs) You know, but it was supposed to be like that. Paul: 'I think they thought it was 'bitty,' which it was a bit.

I didn't see it last night because I was busy, but I saw it today, and I liked it.

Why don't you think that the critics liked this film?' Last night their television show did not bring unanimous enthusiasm and approval, and everyone seems to be discussing it today. Q: 'The Beatles' music brings unanimous enthusiasm and approval pretty well. The next evening following the program's initial telecast, David Frost invited Paul McCartney to discuss what had already become known as the Beatles' first critical failure. While the film 'Magical Mystery Tour' is historically regarded as a very early advance into the music video age, it was universally bashed by critics following its first airing in black and white on BBC-TV. Paul McCartney Interview about film `Magical Mystery Tour' (1967, December 27)

Beatles magical mystery tour movie not successful